Northern lights danced across the sky for a second night in a row.

On Wednesday, Nov. 12, the lights lit up the sky across the globe in the United States, Canada and even in Australia.

This follows the spectacular nighttime phenomena that occurred on Nov. 11, when people in the U.S. as far south as Texas and Florida could see the northern lights, USA TODAY previously reported .

The northern lights were caused by a geomagnetic storm, which occurs when a coronal mass ejection from the sun's surface arrives in Earth's atmosphere. The ejection that caused the brilliant activity erupted from the sun earlier in the week, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado. Download USA TODAY's app to get to the heart of news US Mint says it has stamped its last penny

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